From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 1, 1975:

• An employee of Journigan Construction Co. working on the Clinton Dam project was bitten by a rattlesnake this week. Ebb Warner, 25, of Prentiss, Miss., had been cutting trees near the dam site when the three-and-a-half foot snake bit him on the right leg above his snake boots. “It took 25 minutes for the other men to carry him out,” said Mrs. Bill Speer, whose husband was project manager. “They took him to the hospital in the back of a pickup truck because it would have taken an ambulance too long to get there.” Warner had been given anti-venom serum and spent 12 hours in the intensive care unit of Lawrence Memorial Hospital before returning to work today.
• Warm Labor Day weekend weather had been expected to draw 75,000 visitors to Perry Lake, but according to a spokesperson from the Army Corps of Engineers, only about 15,000 visitors a day had made use of the resort. The weekend total was projected to be about 45,000.